Mystery Ghost Photos

How do you think this ghostly photograph was made? David Maisel came across the Los Angeles Getty Research Instituteâs X-ray archive.
David Maisel is a visual artist who recently completed a residency at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, It was there that he came across the museum's archive of X-rays, used in the process of conserving artwork.
The ghostly images of these X-rays,â he writes, âseem to surpass the power of the original objects of art.â And so he ...

How do you think this ghostly photograph was made? David Maisel came across the Los Angeles Getty Research Instituteâs X-ray archive.
David Maisel is a visual artist who recently completed a residency at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, It was there that he came across the museum's archive of X-rays, used in the process of conserving artwork.
The ghostly images of these X-rays,â he writes, âseem to surpass the power of the original objects of art.â And so he began to photograph them. Maisel has photographed and scanned these X-rays to create an eerie body of work. The photos in his series, History's Shadow, explore his recurring themes of memory and excavation.
According to Maisel, âThey make the invisible visible, and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself, and the continuous presence of the past contained within us.
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